Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 7 • Introduction (The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction) • essay by Ellen Datlow
• 11 • The Way of Cross and Dragon • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 33 • The Thousand Cuts • (1982) • short story by Ian Watson
• 49 • Serpents' Teeth • (1981) • short story by Spider Robinson
• 63 • Boundary Echoes • (1983) • short story by John M. Ford
• 81 • With the Original Cast • (1982) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• 115 • Our Lady of the Sauropods • (1980) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 135 • Going Under • novelette by Jack Dann [as by Jack M. Dann]
• 159 • Sigmund in Space • [Sigmund Freud] • (1980) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 167 • The Invitation • short story by Paul J. Nahin
• 185 • Unaccompanied Sonata • (1979) • short story by Orson Scott Card
• 207 • The Mickey Mouse Olympics • (1979) • short story by Thomas Sullivan
• 223 • I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes • (1982) • short story by Melisa Michaels
• 227 • The Lurking Duck • (1983) • novella by Scott Baker
• 265 • Hinterlands • (1981) • short story by William Gibson
• 287 • Sister Angel • [Constance and Charlie] • (1983) • novelette by Kate Wilhelm
• 315 • Procreation • (1983) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 325 • Easy Points • (1980) • novelette by Kathleen V. Westfall
• 349 • When Auld's Acquaintance Is Forgot • (1982) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 357 • The Ancient Mind at Work • [The Vampire Tapestry] • (1979) • novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas